Dysfunction in National Security apparatus. Americas going to start winning again. Winning like never, ever before. Well, good morning, happy saturday to you. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Good morning to you. Talking about Vice President mike pence, he is a man with a mission overseas to reassure european friends and allies despite tread president elect trumps pledge to put america first, the u. S. Values its counterparts abroad as well as its role in nato. And the Vice President offered a bit of a warning that other nations in the Transatlantic Alliance needed to follow the u. S. Lead and pay are for the protection the membership gives them. As of this moment, the United States and only four other nato members meet this basic standard. Now, while we commend the few nations that are on track to achieve that goal, the truth is that many others, including some of our largest allies still lack and clear and credible path to meeting this minimum goal. Now, back in the u. S. , President Trump going to familiar stomping grounds today. Hes holding a rally later this afternoon in an airplane hangar in melbourne, florida. This is President Trumps First Campaign rally the full week into the presidency. Well get to that in a minute. First, we do have to deal with deadly storms weve been watching in Southern California. Yes. Heavy rains and flooding are responsible for killing at least two people. The roads look you can see it here, the water rushing there, emergency crews overnight working to rescue stranded drivers. To los angeles. You can believe that . Officials are warning residents to take precautions after this river took over parts of santa c clarita. And a giant sinkhole swallowed her car. Well hear from firefighters. The firefighters pulled her from that hole. Well get an update on the storm from the cnn Weather Center where they are watching this system very closely. Meanwhile, it is going to be a working weekend for President Trump. For the third weekend in a row, he will be at his florida estate with his top advisers. This time, hell be interviewing his candidates for the role of National Security adviser. And then returning to a familiar part of the presidency. The campaign podium. Heres cnns sara murray. I love South Carolina. I love it. Reporter less than a month into his presidency, donald trump is breaking out of the bubble. And getting back into campaign mode. This was going to be a place that was tough to win. And we won in a landslide. Reporter trump reliving his South Carolina primary in a visit to a boeing plant today. The president trying to get back to his sweet spot. As he touted his goal to revive american manufacturing. When American Workers win, america as a country wins big league wins. Thats my message here today. Americas going to start winning again. Winning like never ever before. Reporter with the administration under fire over its russian connection, the botched travel ban and the ouster of trumps National Security adviser. Trumps allies say hes been feeling cooped up. So, he jumped at the chance to get out of washington and try to turn the focus to job creation instead. My focus has been all about jobs. And jobs is one of the primary reasons im standing here today as your president. And i will never, ever disappoin disappoint you, believe me. Reporter while trump vowed to prevent jobs from moving overseas i dont want workers leaving their country. Firing everybody in our country. Were not letting that happen anymore, folks, believe me. Reporter he offered few details about how he would do so, as capitol hill is still waiting to see the framework of a tax plan. Its an item on the president s agenda this weekend. When he and top aides are slated to huddle with newly confirmed budget director mick mulvaney. The president hitting the road as a key White House Position remains unfilled. Trump fired National Security adviser Michael Flynn earlier this week. And retired vice admiral bob howard also turned down the job. He has a number on his short list including keith kellogg. Lets talk about this and bring in two of our political reporters. Tom low beonco. This is a Campaign Paid for by donald j. Trump, well news flash, donald j. Trump is president. Kind of like he did on the campaign trail, right . When things would get rocky he would go back to the people. He would turn back to the base. He would have his giant rallies and his speeches where he would kind of go off on tangents on poll numbers go off on tang engts making fun of Hillary Clinton and whatnot. And it energized him. And kind of energized his base. Hes had a rocky start here inside of official washington. Its a return home for him. There are those thinking this will energize his supporters and maybe help him get back on track a little bit. Eric, now do you, the president in South Carolina, North Charleston at boeing was praised for his delivery. For being relaxed. Staying on message there. Do we have an idea of what were going to hear today . Are we going to hear what tom just suggested quite possibly may be more tax on the media . Yeah, absolutely. This is going to be sort of vintage trump. Hes going to be talking about jobs, complaining about Companies Moving overseas. Taking credit for some of the announcements weve seen earlier in his tenure, even before he took office of companies realizing that they got good pr out of the president being able to tout staying in the country. Hes going to be bashing the media, hes obviously been doing that a lot late with the press conference where he spent 75 minutes lashing into journalists. This is going to be sort of his vintage grievancestyle campaigning. This is what he draws his energy from. He likes doing this. It lets him feel like hes out of this sort of bubble that he gets stuck in, whether its in trump tower or in the white house, either way, he really cant leave. He doesnt have anywhere to go. Hes sort of stuck in there, hes disconnected from his people. This allows them to get back in touch with him. At the same time, hes watching these images of democrats showing up at town halls giving republicans a hard time about his agenda. This lets him feel like hes getting into the mix too. More well see more of these regularly. This is the first month of the administration, maybe there will be more of them. We do not know that yet. Lets go to fbi director james comey briefing senators behind closed doorses friday. This was about russia. This is a tweet that came out from marco rubio, i am now confident Senate Intel Committee i serve on will conduct thorough bipartisan investigation of putin interference and influence. What do you make of that tweet from rubio . Well what theyre doing right now, theyre setting the parameters of this investigation. You talk with republican senators and Democratic Senators on there, and talked with mark warner yesterday the top democrat on the committee about this, and what theyre trying to do theyre trying to craft this russia investigation, you know in a way that, appears bipartisan, and gets to the bottom of this. You know, and there seems to be some hope, senator rubio and some of these guys, a lot of these republicans very hawkish on russia. They want do get these answers out, too. One thing i heard from republican senators during the week is that they are really disappointed that all of the information about this is coming out in the media. So, they see this as kind of a way to get things back on track and control some of that information while getting to the bottom of whats going on. So, again, we dont have the explicit details of what came out of that briefing, but its clear, we do know from one attendee that it was about russia. Theyre hitting in that direction. This is setting the parameters of that investigation. Eric, tom, stay with us. Weve got a lot to talk about in just a moment. Christi. Vice president pence is in europe, right now, reassuring european allies of the u. S. Support in nato, among other things. But even though he reaffirms that commitment, hes calling on allies to contribute their fair share. Plus when even one ally fails to do their part, it undermines our ability to come to each others aid. Taking a look at this, the heavy rains pounding Southern California. This parking garage, the rain just pouring off in sheets. Well have an update on this deadly storm. And where the systems headed coming up. vo this is not a video game. This is not a screensaver. 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Tom, do you think that anything that mike pence has said thus far today has truly reassured anyone in that audience . Well, you have to think that what hes done is what hes always does, is taken trumps sort of, you know, offthewall comments and turn them into, i dont know, politicalese, maybe . I dont know, this sounds like policy what hes talking about. You know, he took the trump idea he wants nato members to pay more in. They think americas been paying too much over the years. And he wants more from the other member states. He took that and put it out there a good strong message. Again, reassured Baltic States that natures toe will support them as russia keeps on trying to go to the borders west ward. These are things that are sound policy and were delivered clearly. Thats kind of what pence is there to do. Eric, i want to read to you, he also said in response to what tom was saying about nato. He did say the promise to share the burden of our defense has gone unfill filled by too many for too long and erodes the foundation of our alliance. Is he able, do you think, to entice, to inspire anyone who has not paid to actually do so. Christi, hes really mixing messages here, isnt he . I mean, hes really pushing this trump idea that nato countries need to pay into the alliance, while at the same time, trying to offer reassurances. And its unclear at this point. How this is going to be received. We know hes sort of been rebuked by germany. Its tough to guess whether he is conducting a sort of diplomacy while hes there, behind the scenes to sort of advance things along. You have to remember that other countries are well aware that this trip comes at the same time President Trump is having his own struggles at home. With the National Security council with general flynn, his National Security adviser now having been fired. And trump really trying to still shape his National Security apparatus at home. That seems to be in a bit of chaos right now. So, other countries realize that pences comments dont come in a vacuum. And theyre waiting to see how that sort of shakes out as well, as they figure out how to deal with this new administration. And, tom, i wanted to ask you about that. In the shadow of the Michael Flynn chaos, has the Vice President lost any credence or credibility . Yeah, you know, i was talking with some lawmakers about this, you got to remember that he is viewed as the kind of normal republican that you can talk to. Among official washington. When you do have concerns about what trump is doing. And there were some concerns about this that, you know, hey, heres the guy that was the connection for them. And he was frozen out of this incredibly important thing for two weeks. It was a little concerning for some of them. Now, theres still pretty confident that he can deliver messages from them back and forth. And that he does speak for the administration. But it shook up that confidence a little bit. I want to play some sound from the Vice President a short time ago in the speech talking about russia. Lets listen. Know this, the United States will continue to hold russia accountable. Even as we search for new common ground, which as you know President Trump believes can be found. It doesnt necessarily correspond with what we have heard from donald trump, eric. So, how do you believe the World Leaders who are listening to this may take in some of what hes saying when it comes to russia . Right. The Vice President s job is to translate donald trump into republicanese. Now, that seems to work. But how he can translate trump into International Diplomacy is another matter viraentirely. Again, theres no indication that trump is backing away from his rhetoric on russia, and weve seen that just in the last couple of days. So its really not clear here whether the Vice President that speak for any sort of shift for the administrations approach. It seems like hes sort of recasting, rebranding the trump message without changing it much at all. And thats something that, again, pence is good at, but it does seem that trump himself has not had a change in approach on russia. Real quickly, tom, do you think that President Trump saw the speech beforehand . He said he wants the people he appoints, that he chooses in his administration to speak from their minds but because there is a difference from what were hearinging from Vice President pence and President Trump, we may be wondering how the president may react to this speech. Well, i mean, look, you have to think that theyre going to be of the same mind on this thing. Like bradder er iner said and said earlier, taking what the trump message is and trying to make it a little more cogent. Its a big question, what do they mean when theyre talking about easing relations with russia, what does that mean. Thats why you saw the pushback from the german counselor. Christi, remember, the u. N. Ambassador nikki haley has been at odds with President Trump in terms of language with russia. Its not the first time weve seen this. Tom lobianco and eric bradner, we appreciate it much. Thank you, gentlemen. Big troubles in the west coast. Take a look at your screen. The deadly storms slamming california. Major problems for drivers. That car swallowed by a sinkhole. The woman trapped there. Were going to hear from that woman next. I was in shock when my dentist was explaining to me the acidity of foods and what they can do to your teeth. Thinning of the teeth and leading to being extremely yellow would probably gross me out my dentist recommended pronamel. 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